pœnitential

Adjective

 * 1) * 1912, The English Reports (W. Green), volume 4 or 124, page 380:
 * Afterwards there were divers articles exhibited to them against the Lady Purbeck for adultery, and Mrs. Peele, and others; that she in annis Domini 1621, 1622, 1623, or 1624, in some one or all of these was an abettor of this adultery. For which she was sentenced to pay 200l. &c. and that she made a pœnitential acknowledgement of her offence, and farther that she shall be imprisoned untill she found security for the performance of that order.
 * 1) * 1912, The English Reports (W. Green), volume 4 or 124, page 380:
 * Afterwards there were divers articles exhibited to them against the Lady Purbeck for adultery, and Mrs. Peele, and others; that she in annis Domini 1621, 1622, 1623, or 1624, in some one or all of these was an abettor of this adultery. For which she was sentenced to pay 200l. &c. and that she made a pœnitential acknowledgement of her offence, and farther that she shall be imprisoned untill she found security for the performance of that order.